Rousseau, Loren Lynn
Was“The Barn”always intended as such an expansive study of Emmett Till’s murder? No, it was much more of a personal quest before it was a work project. It was something I was just doing on my own. I wanted to know about this barn. It just haunted me, the fact that it ...
A Wreath for Emmett Tilltells a true story about a young African-American boy who was lynched for a crime he did not commit in 1955. Hacker makes the harrowing story of Emmett Till accessible to young readers by relying on some of the traditional thematic elements of sonnets:providing a vi...
Of course, the sequel sees Tom Cruise return as Captain Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, back to train newbies to be as brilliant in the skies as he is. Treading a delicate balance between old and new, there are plenty of throwbacks to please fans of the original. No doubt the big Top G...
Remember when it was easy to tell when someone was interested in you? When you were around 10 years old, chances are someone passed a folded sheet of notebook paper and it read in 10-year-old scribble: "Do you like me? I like you. Check yes, no or maybe." You smiled and checked...
although any realist knew that segregation wasn’t going to end quickly. Tensions escalated in August 1955 after the body of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy from Chicago visiting relatives in Money, Mississippi, was pulled from the Tallahatchie River, one eye gouged out and a sevent...
When her son was about three years old, she married David Baldwin, a Baptist minister who had moved north from New Orleans. Growing up, James Baldwin found refuge in reading books at the public library, and he began writing poems, short stories, and plays at a young age. Britannica Quiz...
“I’m from Mississippi, and I grew up in Chicago, so as a black man growing up in the Midwest I’ve experienced different forms of racism. Emmett Till was murdered two years after I was born and about an hour away from me. People find it hard to talk about race. In my drum-to...
Such was the case, for example, with the horrific pictures of 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American child beaten and lynched in 1955 by racists in Mississippi. When his mother decided to allow pictures of young Emmett’s body to be shared with the press, public reac...
New York Times columnist Charles Blow reflects on how the 2012 killing of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin – like the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till – sparked protest movements led by mothers with tears on their cheeks but steel in their spines.